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FREE PUBLIC EXHIBITION 


From Saturday - November 27 - To Time of Sale 
Weekdays 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. 7 Sunday 2 to 5 p.m. 


UNRESTRICTED PUBLIC SALE 
Saturday, December 4 Beginning at 2:30 p.m. 


EXHIBITION AND SALE AT THE 


American Art Galleries 
Madison Avenue: 56th to 57th Street 
New York City 


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SALES CONDUCTED BY 
Mr. O. Bernet and Mr. H. H. Parke 
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Rare O Id Rugs 


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Collectors’ examples of the art of the loom with 
Ispahan rugs and Polonaise carpets 1 A 
magnificent royal Perstan animal carpet from 
the -Marquand (ollection + More formalized 
carpets of Kouba, of Asia Minor and of 
Spain + Saracenic ‘Damascus rugs of the 
tifteenth century 1 Fine Cfereghans, Khorassans 


and Samarcands 


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Conditions of Sale 


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1. REJECTION oF Bins. Any bid which is not commensurate with the value 
of the article offered, or which is merely a nominal or fractional advance, 
may be rejected by the auctioneer if in his judgment such bid would be 
likely to affect the sale injuriously. 

2. THE Buyer. ‘The highest bidder shall be the buyer, and if any dispute 
arises between two or more bidders, the auctioneer shall either decide the 
same or put up for re-sale the lot so in dispute. 

3. IpentTIFICATION AND Deposir By Buyer. The name of the buyer of each 
lot shall be given immediately on the sale thereof, and when so required, 
each buyer shall sign a card giving the lot number, amount for which sold, 
and his or her name and address. QJ, A deposit at the actual time of the sale 
shall be made of all or such part of the purchase prices as may be required. 
(I If the two foregoing conditions are not complied with, the lot or lots so 
purchased may at the option of the auctioneer be put up again and re-sold. 

4. Risk AFTER Purcuase. ‘Title passes upon the fall of the auctioneer’s ham- 
mer, and thereafter the property is at the purchaser’s risk, and neither the 
consignor nor the Association is responsible for the loss of, or any damage 
to any article by theft, fire, breakage, however occasioned, or any other 
cause whatsoever. 

5. DELivEry oF PurcHasgs. Delivery of any purchases will be made only 
upon payment of the total amount due for all purchases at the sale. 

6. RecErPTeD Bitis. Goods will only be delivered on presentation of a re- 
ceipted bill. A receipted bill presented by any person will be recognized and 
honored as an order by the buyer, directing the delivery to the bearer of the 
goods described thereon. If a receipted bill is lost before delivery of the prop- 
erty has been taken, the buyer should immediately notify the Association of 
such loss. 

7. STORAGE IN DEFAULT oF Prompr PayMENT AND CALLING For Goops. 
Articles not paid for in full and not called for by the purchaser or agent by 
noon of the day following that of the sale may be turned over by the Associa- 
tion to some carter to be carried to and stored in some warehouse until the 
time of the delivery therefrom to the purchaser, and the cost of such cartage 
and storage and any other charges will be charged against the purchaser and 
the risk of loss or damage occasioned by such removal or storage will be upon 
the purchaser. I In any instance where the purchase bill has not been paid in 
full by noon of the day following that of the sale, the Association and the 
auctioneer reserve the right, any other stipulation in these conditions of sale 
notwithstanding, in respect to any or all lots included in the purchase bill, at 
its or his option, either to cancel the sale thereof or to re-sell the same at 
public or private sale without further notice for the account of the buyer 
and to hold the buyer responsible for any deficiency and all losses and 
expenses sustained in so doing. : gh eee : ; 

8. Surppinc. Shipping, boxing or wrapping of purchases is a business in which 
the Association is in no wise engaged, but the Association will, however; 


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afford to purchasers every facility for employing at current and reasonable 
rates carriers and packers; doing so, however, without any assumption of 
responsibility on its part for the acts and charges of the parties engaged for 
such service. 

Guaranty. ‘The Association exercises great care to catalogue every lot 
correctly and endeavors therein and also at the actual time of the sale to 
point out any error, defect or imperfection, but guaranty is not made either 
by the owner or the Association of the correctness of the description, genuine- 
ness, authenticity or condition of any lot and no sale will be set aside on 
account of any incorrectness, error of cataloguing or imperfection not noted 
or pointed out. Every lot is sold “as is” and without recourse. ( Every 
lot is on public exhibition one or more days prior to its sale, and the Associa- 
tion will give consideration to the opinion of any trustworthy expert to the 
effect that any lot has been incorrectly catalogued and in its judgment may 
thereafter sell the lot as catalogued or make mention of the opinion of such 
expert, who thereby will become responsible for such damage as might result 
were his opinion without foundation. 

Recorps. The records of the auctioneer and the Association are in all cases 
to be considered final and the highest bid shall in all cases be accepted by 
both buyer and seller as the value against which all claims for losses or 
damage shall lie. 

BuyING ON OrpeEr. Buying or bidding by the Association for responsible 
parties on orders transmitted to it by mail, telegraph, or telephone, if con- 
ditions permit, will be faithfully attended to without charge of commission. 
Any purchases so made will be subject to the foregoing conditions of sale, 
except that, in the event of a purchase of a lot of one or more books by or 
for a purchaser who has not through himself or his agent been present at the 
exhibition or sale, the Association will permit such lot to be returned within 
ten days from the date of sale, and the purchase money will be refunded, 
if the lot differs from its catalogue description. Orders for execution 
by the Association should be given with such clearness as to leave no room for 
misunderstanding. Not only should the lot number be given, but also the 
title, and bids should be stated to be so much for the lot, and when the lot 
consists of one or more volumes of books or objects of art, the bid per 
volume or piece should also be stated. If the one transmitting the order is 
unknown to the Association, a deposit must be sent or reference submitted. 
Shipping directions should also be given. 


These conditions of sale cannot be altered except by the 
auctioneer or by an officer of the Association 


OTTO BERNET - HIRAM H. PARKE - cMuctioneers 


AMERICAN ART ASSOCIATION - INC 
Managers 


Cforeword 


HE American Art Association, Inc. has the honor to announce 

that the Messrs. V. and L. Benguiat are placing before the public 

the second part of their private collection of rare rugs, of which 

the first part was offered at unrestricted public sale in December, 1925, 

and which comprised carpets of the sixteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth 

centuries, including some of the most important examples extant of this 
first class. 

In point of sheer workmanship, the Oriental carpet of the Middle 
Ages, and more especially of the Sefevid Renaissance in Persia, is unique; 
for no other product of the sixteenth century possesses in our day the 
vitality and purity of preservation of these masterpieces of a highly or- 
ganized craft-technique. Under Shah Abbas [1557-1627] the two most 
magnificent types of carpets came into flowe:: the Ispahan rugs of East- 
ern Persia, with the brilliance of their draughtsmanship and amazing rose- 
crimson, sapphire-blue and emerald grounds, and the ‘Polonaise’ carpets, 
woven as presents from the Shah to foreign monarchs, in silk and gold 
and silver threads. 

The Benguiat Collection possesses the outstanding specimens of 
either class which are in private hands at the present time. Of the for- 
mer, two large carpets and two small rugs may be cited as the technical 
equals of the finest carpets, and the Polonaise rug [ No. 77] is one of the 
most dazzling ornaments couceived and executed by the East. From the 
Henry G. Marquand Collection is the royal Persian animal carpet [ No. 
76] of brilliant craftsmanship and detail. It is described by John K. 
Mumford as being “as near perfection as the woolen carpet of the East 
has come or ever will come.” This carpet was a gift from the Emperor 
of the Persians, an authentic record in the possession of its former owner 
setting forth that the rug was among the effects of the Sultan Abdul Aziz 
of Turkey at the time of his death. It resembles closely the famous car- 
pet owned by Prince Alexis Lobanow-Rostowsky, published as Plate XI 
in the Vienna Museum’s historical. work. For meticulous execution it 
may be compared with a little seventeenth millefleurs rug [ No. 73], cov- 
ered in its entirety with a blaze of tiny gemlike flowers. 

Beside these court productions are the more virile formalized car- 
pets of Kouba, of Asia Minor [a group of the powerful red and blue 
Oushaks] and of Spain, with its fantastic late Gothic leafage and bird 
figures and Renaissance scrolled borders. ‘The earliest type of rug repre- 
sented is the Saracenic ‘Damascus’ carpet, with its tile designs in red and 
leaf-green, strongly recalling Moorish art and belonging to the fifteenth 
century; these rugs are perhaps the most interesting of all, and make their 
special appeal to the collector and the didactic expert, since the exact site 
of their manufacture still remains to be determined. 


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SALE AT THE -4MERICAN -4RT GALLERIES 


The Benguiat Private Collection of Rugs 
DECEMBER 4, 1926 
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To save time and to prevent mistakes each purchaser will oblige the 


management by filling in this slip and handing it to the record clerk or 
sales attendant on making the first purchase. 


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AMERICAN ArT ASSOCIATION * INC * Managers 


AFTERNOON SALE 
Saturday December 4, 1926 at 2:30 


Catalogue Numbers I to 80 Inclusive 


PERSIAN SILK SADDLE TRAPPING 
Symmetrical pattern of opposed tulips, lotus and floral palmettes 
in a ground of delicate branches of flowers, in pastel greens, pinks 
and blues on a ruby-red ground. ‘Tiny scrolled fawn border. 

Length, 1 foot 8 inches; width, 1 foot 9 inches 


THREE PERSIAN SILK TRAPPINGS 

Comprising border and two lappets. The former with trailing 
design of lotus and jasmine on a scarlet ground, the latter with 
tulips and lotus flowers within a cusped arch, in a field of ruby-red. 
Tiny fawn floral guards. 


PERSIAN GOLD-WOVEN SILK Mat 

Maroon field with graceful symmetrical floral design in silver threads 
outlined in brown-black and interlacing with minute scrolling green 
twigs of flowers. Mellow deep ivory border with jade-green 
plaquettes woven with blossoms and caligraphic inscriptions. 


Length, 1 foot 11 inches; width, 1 foot 3 inches 


OusHAK RuG Asia Minor, XVII Century 


Exhibiting a pendanted quatrefoil medallion in olive-green, infloret- 
ted in blue and scarlet, in a scarlet ground overrun with angular 
blue branches. Scarlet border with angular formalized branch 
motive. 

Length, 3 feet 4 inches; width, 2 feet 1 inch 


.. RARE KtrRMAN Mart, PorTRAYING THE MADONNA AND CHILD 
XVII Century 


Within a serpentine arch of branches is a group of the Madonna and 
Child clad in blue, rose and green against a rose-crimson back- 
ground; buff spandrels with figures of affrontés birds. Border 
of deep blue-black with an undulating green branch motive bearing 
yellow henna flowers. 


Length, 2 feet 8 inches; width, 1 foot 11 inches 


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6. PERSIAN SILK SPECIMEN RUG 
Golden-yellow field beautified with an Ispahan design of palmettes, 
blossoms and lotus scrollings interspersed with cloud bands in a 
symmetrical pattern. Delicate sapphire border with fimbriated 
leaves linked by scrolling branches of tiny flowers. A specimen 
rug of incredible fineness of weave. 
Length, 3 feet 3 inches; width, 2 feet 4 inches 


7. FRAGMENT OF AN ISPAHAN CARPET Eastern Persia, XVI Century 
Corner of field exhibiting a superb rose-crimson and brown color 
with portions of infloretted palmettes, lotus scrollings and Mongo- 
lian cloud bands in soft colors and ivory. Deep sapphire border 
with large leaf palmettes alternately directed, principally in crimson, 
orange and yellow, and lotus blossoms supported by scrolling green 


creepers. 
Length, 3 feet 4 inches; width, 2 feet 1 inch 


8. FRAGMENT OF A Damascus CARPET XVI Century 
On a soft cherry-red ground a pattern of symmetrical scrolling 
branches, particolored in fawn and blue-back, enclosing lotus blos- 
soms. The field further enriched with trailing curved branches of 
white jasmine. Rare specimen. 

Length, 3 feet 4 inches; width, 2 feet 4 inches 


9. PERSIAN SItK SEMICIRCULAR RUG 
Sang-de-boeuf ground symmetrically patterned with swaying heads 
of large formalized lotus blossoms and palmettes, interspersed with 
tiny leaves and white jasmine. Unusual border of spatulate leaves 
linked by broad serpentine infloretted branches in soft colors and 
old-ivory, on a ground of the same color. 
Length, 3 feet 4 inches; width, 2 feet 8 inches 


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PERSIAN GOLD-WOVEN SILK RuG 


On a claret-colored ground a minute and delicate design of the Ispa- 
han type of fringed palmettes, birds, lotus, jasmine and lilies, woven 
in primrose-yellow, shades of blue and green, rose, tan and ivory in 
a symmetrical design. Sapphire-blue border with birds, primrose- 
yellow palmettes and tangled branches of smaller blossoms. Of 


superb fineness of weave. 
Length, 3 feet 7 inches; width, 2 feet 7 inches 


Pair ANTIQUE FEREGHAN MEDALLION Mats 
Old-ivory field centred with a skeleton sawtooth medallion outlined 
in dark-green and enclosing formalized floral ornament in brilliant 
colors; the spandrels with upstanding angular stems of tulips in 
rose-crimson. Narrow pistache-green floral guard. 

Length, 3 feet 4 inches; width, 2 feet 9 inches 


Rare Kousa fLoraL RuG _ XVII Century 
Rich field of mellow sang-de-boeuf tone with two skeleton leaf- 
shaped medallions outlined in ivory and enclosing upright formal- 
ized stems of yellow henna flowers. Border of the same with a 
pattern of linked hexagons enclosing triads of henna and pink roses, 
between ivory guards with undulating figure. The pattern curi- 
ously raised in a thick pile, in a ground with delicate patina. 

Length, 4 feet 4 inches; width, 2 feet 10% inches 


' Tapestry PRAYER RuG Egyptian [?] XVII Century 


Deep indigo-blue field beneath a pointed and stepped mihrab with 
suspended mosque lamp; the spandrels in scarlet, woven with a 
species of canopy plant in blues, fawns, and ivory. Golden-yellow 
border with recurring serrated figures between deep brown and 
mazarine-blue geometrical guards. Double-sided tapestry rug, en- 


riched with metal threads. 
Length, 5 feet 1 inch; width, 3 fect 8 inches 


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FRAGMENT OF A GoTHic Damascus CARPET XV Century 
Developing a centre with geometrical mosaic devices, and two broad 
borders exhibiting on a sky-blue ground a linked pattern of rosettes 
in dark crimson alternating with elongated plaquettes in leaf-green 
with tiny straight stems. Four deep crimson guards with chains of 
floral ornament in shades of green, yellow and ivory. 

Length, 8 feet; width, 3 feet 7 inches 


SPANISH RUG XVII Century 
The field of buff develops two large opposed vase motives formed 
of scrolled branches in two shades of blue and green, separated by 
two central shaped medallions enclosing striped formalized leaf 
ornament. The tan border exhibits a graceful scrolling branch 
motive in green and yellow, supporting fawn diamond-shaped 


blossoms. 
Length, 6 feet 10 inches; width, 3 feet 4 inches 


SPANISH FLORAL RuG XVII Century 
In a tan field two large opposed Louis XIV designs of large sym- 
metrical scrolling branches in sapphire-blue enclosing angular blos- 
soms and leafage in sky-blue, yellow and ivory, with traces of rose- 
pink and celadon; the whole within a narrow invected frame of 
mazarine-blue. 

Length, 6 feet 7 inches; width, 3 feet 4 inches 


SPANISH RENAISSANCE Birp RuG XVI Century 


An oval medallion, in a tone of rich sapphire-blue and centred with 
eight spokes terminating in blossoms, is surrounded by four check- 
ered bird figures in green and ivory and detached stems of flowers, 
in a field of tan; at either end is a vase with an upstanding plant, 
flanked by leaning stalks of roses and tulips at the corners. Indigo- 
blue border with an interlacing strap design, principally in tan. 

j Length, 6 feet 6 inches; width, 3 feet 6 inches 


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Damascus Gotuic RuG XV Century 


In a deep blood-red ground a central eight-pointed stellate medallion 
centred with geometrical ornament and outlined in grass-green; the 


rest of the field occupied by characteristic tile patterns enclosing 


geometrical forms and wheel-shaped leaf devices, in grass-green 
and sky-blue. Border in colors of the field and exhibiting a chain 
of circular deep red rosettes alternating with elongated green 
plaquettes enriched with leaf ornament. 

Length, 6 feet 10 inches; width, 4 feet 7 inches 


Asta Minor “SEVEN Mountarns” RuG Early XVII Century 


A scarlet border, with stepped hexagonal plaquettes alternately in 
yellow and ivory, surrounds a cerulean-blue field ornamented with 
detached geometrical floral ornament; a large latch-hooked hexag- 
onal medallion in old scarlet is centred with a golden-yellow pla- 
quette bordered by formalized carnations and other blossoms in 
pale blue, celadon and tan. Geometrical scarlet and yellow guards. 

Length, § feet 9 inches; width, 4 feet 3 inches 


Asta Minor “SEVEN Mountains” RuG Early XVII Century 
A scarlet border with stepped hexagonal plaquettes alternately in 
yellow and ivory surrounds a mazarine-blue field ornamented with 
detached geometrical floral ornament; a large latch-hooked hexag- 
onal medallion in old-scarlet is centred with a golden-yellow pla- 
quette bordered by formalized carnations and other blossoms in 
pale blue, celadon and tan. Geometrical scarlet and yellow guards. 

Length, 5 feet 10 inches; width, 4 feet 


LADIK PRAYER RuG XVII Century 


Narrow field of pigeon-blood red, beneath a stepped pointed mihrab 
with two sapphire-blue spandrels surmounted by floral pinnacles 
in a scarlet ground. Brown border with cruciform rosettes alter- 
nating with angular L-shaped stems of tulips; guards of red, ceru- 
lean-blue and old-gold with geometrical and swaying vine ornament. 

Length, 6 feet 6 inches; width, 3 feet 8 inches 


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LapikK PRAYER RuG Early XVII Century 
Field of deep sang-de-boeuf with a stepped pointed and latch-hooked 
mihrab and two floral columns; the spandrels of sapphire-blue with 
detached formalized leaves and blossoms. The field is surmounted 
by pinnacles, from which spring upstanding tulips in a field of deep 
blood-red. Pale vieil or border with oval rosettes alternating with 


L-shaped angular stems of tulips. 
Length, 6 feet; width, 3 feet 5 inches 


OusHAK MEDALLION RUG Asia Minor, Early XVII Century 
Double-arched mellow scarlet field bearing a small hexagonal gold- 
en-yellow medallion with blue branch pendants amid tiny scattered 
gem-like blossom heads; the spandrels in deep greenish-blue with 
angular red branch ornament. Sapphire-blue border with Mon- 
golian cloud-bands in red interspersed with scattered formalized 


blossoms and angular leafage. 
Length, 7 feet; width, 4 feet 8 inches 


PERSIAN LEGENDARY RUG 

Depicting a romantic tale with figures of lovers and a watchman 
in a palace garden, with a tall tree and love-birds, on a ruby-red 
ground; spandrels with winged angel figures amid yellow scrollings. 
Sky-blue border with trees and flowers, birds and seated figures of 


witches in the corners. 
Length, 7 feet 8 inches; width, 4 feet 10 inches 


PERSIAN GOLD-WOVEN SILK SPECIMEN RUG 
Delicate ruby-red field with a fragile pattern of fringed palmettes 
and birds supported on slender scrolling branches, interspersed with 
Mongolian cloud bands and bearing conventionalized lotus. Deep 
turquoise-green border with recurring fimbriated leaves and infloret- 
ted palmettes, within a scrolling tangle of creepers, in soft colors. 
A textile specimen of fine weave. 

Length, 5 feet 1 inch; width, 3 feet § inches 


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RHODIAN FLORAL RuG 

Field of dark téte de négre, with flattened design of a row of pointed 
laviolate medallions, infloretted with blossoms and emitting lateral 
branches of carnations; the whole in sapphire, scarlet and pistache- 
green. Beautiful cerulean-blue border with a winding serrated 
branch motive supporting Rhodian lilies and carnations. Brown 


and scarlet floral guards. 
Length, 11 feet 6 inches; width, 4 feet 3 inches 


PERSIAN EMBLEMATIC SILK RuG 

The field of old-ivory, occupied by figures of men and women, 
cypresses, flowering trees, long-tailed birds and in the centre the 
figure of a bearded monarch robed in blue, grasping by the necks 
two lions. Delicate rose-crimson border with carnations, lilies, 
lotus and other blossoms, birds and figures of musicians, between 


undulating floral guards. 
Length, 9 feet 6 inches; width, 6 feet 10 inches 


From the Charles T. Yerkes Collection 


ANTIQUE FEREGHAN HERATI CARPET 

On an old-ivory field a close allover Herati lozenge pattern with 
particolored scarlet, blue and yellow curving leaves and supporting 
formalized rosettes and tiny leafage; the pointed ends projecting 
into cypress-green spandrels woven with naturalistic roses, carna- 
tions and jasmine. Unusual sapphire-blue border with longitudi- 
nally placed vases emitting angular branches of conventionalized 
leaves and blossoms and separated by chains; the corners with large 


rose-red fern-leaf plaquettes. 
Length, 13 feet 4 inches; width, 6 feet 8 inches 


. HERAT CARPET Early XVII Century 


Fluctuating soft scarlet field with velvety patina and woven with 
an allover Herati design of unusual size and elongation, enriched 
with rosettes and tiny scattered white jasmine blossoms. Sapphire- 
blue border in which is a recurring cruciform rosette device in shades 
of blue, scarlet, green, tan and ivory linked by diagonal branches. 
Golden-yellow and ivory floral guards. E 


Length, 13 feet 2 inches; width, 6 feet 7 inches 


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On a mellow deep blue field an elongated rhomboidal pattern of the 
Herati leaf, particolored in scarlet, yellow and sky-blue and inter- 
spersed with white jasmine. Scarlet border with formalized ‘‘turtle”’ 
palmettes joined by slender interlacing branches bearing waving 
fronds and jasmine blossoms; cowslip-yellow floral guards. 

Length, 9 feet 4 inches; width, 4 feet 10 inches 


HERAT CARPET AVIII Century 
On a rich sapphire-blue field the allover rhomboidal Herati design 
with curled lancet leaves particolored in blue and old-scarlet and 
centred with rosettes in deep blue, scarlet, yellow and ivory. Broad 
fluctuating scarlet border with infloretted palmettes outlined in 
ivory, and supported on interlacing creepers with curled Herati 
leaves. Primrose-yellow guards with interlinked branch ornament. 

Length, 14 feet 5 inches; width, 6 feet 11 inches 


KousBa RuG Early XVII Century 
An archaic rug of great interest. On a ground of deep metallic 
sapphire-blue, is woven a pole of skeleton scorpion-like medallions 
outlined in scarlet and enclosing formalized leaf motives; flanked 
at either side by large serrated leaves in fawn and celadon-green. 
The remainder of the field is covered in nomad fashion with small 
detached rosettes, leaves, hooks and floral motives. Narrow bor- 
der of old-ivory with recurring geometrical latch-hooked figures, 
and at one end an undulating floral border. Dated 1132 AH. 
Length, 8 feet 10 inches; width, 5 feet 2 inches 


SAMARCAND SILK RuG Late XVII Century 


On a field of old-ivory an allover design of paired rows of laterally 
disposed branches of flowers of the jasmine type, with jade-green 
angular branches bent into lozenge designs centred in tan. - Border 
of scrolled striped figures representing waves, enriched with a species 
of fleur-de-lys motive. Diapered outer guard, inner guard with 
lei-wén, or key-fret motive, in green. 

Length, 11 feet; width, 5 feet 8 inches 


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SAMARCAND SILK RuG AVIII Century 
Fluctuating bleu-de-ciel field bearing five rows of huge rounded octa- 
gonal plaquettes in mellow scarlet, embellished with fungus motives 
in ivory centred with tiny yellow ju-i scrolls; the rest of field occu- 
pied by zigzag rectilinear branches with rudimentary hooked leafage. 
Double border of fret ornament in soft colors on a bluish-ivory 
ground, with inner floral guard of tawny-orange. 

Length, 13 feet; width, 6 feet 5 inches 


SPANISH GOTHIC RUG XVI Century 


Golden-brown field developing a cruciform design in mazarine-blue 
alternating with a rhomboidal pattern in cypress-green enriched 
with tiny yellow bird forms; amid this, a meandering angular pat- 
tern of serrated ivory branches. Border of the same, with parti- 
colored angular scrollings of leaves and straggling foliage, in tones 
of the field. 


Length, 10 feet 6 inches; width, § feet 6 inches 


SPANISH GoTHIC RuG XVI Century 
Golden-brown field developing a cruciform leaf design in mazarine- 
blue, alternating with a rhomboidal pattern in cypress-green en- 
riched with tiny yellow bird forms; amid this, a meandering angular 
pattern of serrated ivory branches. Border of the same with parti- 
colored angular scrollings of leaves and straggling foliage in tones 
of the field. (Incomplete. ) 


Length, 7 feet 8 inches; width, 5 feet 6 inches 


SPANISH RENAISSANCE RUG XVI Century 
Allover design, forming a species of lattice, of serrated incurved 
diamond figures in sapphire-blue, fleurdelisés and centred with 
leaved rosettes in orange, two shades of blue, deep green, yellow 
and ivory. The spaces between the figures are filled by a lattice- 
work of ajouré green leafage supporting orange and blue rosettes. 
Border of the same with an archaic running angular branch motive 
bearing green and ivory-yellow leafage. 

Length, 8 feet 7 inches; width, 4 feet 5 inches 


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SPANISH GOTHIC CARPET Early XVI Century 
The composition is in two tones, on a ground of téte de négre, pre- 
senting a ribbed appearance from age. On this is a formal design 
in fawn of a large floral diamond lattice enclosing serrated leaf 
medallions of incurved diamond shape, fleurdelisés. A simple bor- 
der of fawn is reserved with a chain of small cruciform links in 


brown-black. 
Length, 10 feet 4 inches; width, 6 feet 9 inches 


LaTE GOTHIC SPANISH CARPET AVI Century 


On a pale field of the hue of ashes-of-roses, with soft patina, are 
woven three large circular wreaths of green leafage each enclosing 
a mystical cruciform device of angular scrollings, the remainder of 
the field occupied by latticed ornaments with blossoming lilies. Bor- 
der of pale green, with a design in a deeper tone of clasped S-scroll- 
ings embodying winged birds and terminating in dragon heads, 
between striped guards. 

Length, 9 feet 6 inches; width, 5 feet 3 inches 


OusHAK RuG Asia Minor, XVII Century 


The halves of two huge leaf forms in cypress-green, infloretted in 
blue, yellow and scarlet, project from either end into a brilliant 
red field woven with straggling blue leafage and two small opposed 
quatrefoil ornaments in blue. Sapphire-blue border with fimbriated 
palmette leaves joined by slender undulating twigs bearing formal- 
ized blossoms and lotus flowers in colors of the filed. Red and olive- 
green guards with running design. 

Length, 7 feet 8 inches; width, 5 feet 6 inches 


RARE TAPESTRY CARPET Spanish Renaissance 


Interesting ground composed of bands of blue, pistache-green and 
scarlet stripes, interrupted by rectangular strips enriched with 
archaic ornament of human figures astride trees, Renaissance vases, 
double-headed eagles and cherub heads alternating with affrontés 
monsters; borders of angular branch motives in ivory. The whole 
woven in blues, rose, tans, greens and ivory in a flat pileless tapestry 
stitch. 

Length, 13 feet 10 inches; width, 3 feet 1 inch 


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IsPAHAN RuG Eastern Persia, Late XVI Century 
A wine-colored field, with fugitive metallic patina, displays a cen- 
tral group of six symmetrically opposed peony palmettes, linked by 
cloud-bands in rose and cypress-green, amid lotus blossoms and sec- 
ondary cloud-bands also symmetrically placed and woven in soft 
blues, greens, yellow, rose, buff and ivory, and joined by curved 
flowering twigs. The broad mature border exhibits large alter- 
nately directed fringed leaf palmettes infloretted and alternating 
with finely drawn lotus blossoms, amid a network of slender creep- 
ers. Floral outer guard, pinnacled counterchanged inner guard. 
Length, 6 feet 5 inches; width, 4 feet 4 inches 


Kousa RuG XVII Century 


On a field of old-ivory a regular pattern of longitudinal and hori- 
zontal rows of formalized striped bird or leaf figures particolored 
in rose and crimson, light and dark green, blue and ivory; alter- 
nating with angular stems of blue and red rosettes with fringed 
leaves. Ivory border with a continuous pattern of undulating angu- 
lar branches supporting conventionalized leafage in colors of the 


field. 


Length, to feet 3 inches; width, 5 feet 8 inches 


SPANISH RENAISSANCE CARPET XVI Century 
On a field of warm tan an allover lattice of ivory leafage enriched 
with blossoms in orange, yellow and blue, enclosing large serrated 
incurved diamond figures in sapphire-blue, fleurdelisés and centred 
with similar rosettes. Border of the same, exhibiting a pure Renais- 
sance running design of vases or candelabra in orange between pairs 
of clasped fringed volutes enriched with straggling leafage in 
colors of the field and deep cypress-green. 


Length, 11 feet 2 inches; width, 9 feet 8 inches 


ANTIQUE CHINESE FLORAL RUG 


On a velvety field of tawny-tan, rows of scattered sprays of the 
Hundred Blossoms interspersed with butterflies, in light and dark 
blue, yellow and ivory. Old-ivory border with recurring pink and 
white peonies heading short scrolled stems of leaves in blue. Inner 
pearl border of white and blue. 

Length, to feet 9 inches; width, 6 feet 6 inches 


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46. KouBa RuG AVII Century 


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Exhibiting a curious allover design of particolored angular scrolled 
branches in scarlet and blue, celadon and yellow, rose, ivory and 
tan enclosing formalized blossom heads and angular leaves, inter- 
spersed with tiny S-hooks. Border of the same with pairs of ser- 
rated leaves alternating with rectangular and stellate rosettes in 
brilliant colors, between ivory floral guards. 

Length, 13 feet 3 inches; width, 6 feet 


KouBA CARPET AVII Century 
Beautiful bleu-de-ciel field, fluctuating from pale blue to deep tur- 
quoise and woven with seven lateral rows of serrated hexagonal 
plaquettes enriched with hooked motives and sagittate devices, in 
brilliant blues, reds, greens, tans, golden-yellow and ivory; the 
spaces between filled with tiny geometrical rosettes, arrow-heads, 
stars and other emblems, nomad-fashion. Ivory border with an 
angular formalized swaying vine in colors of the field between scar- 
let guards with running leaf motives. A rug of unusual color and 
spirit. ji 

Length, 12 feet 4 inches; width, 7 feet 


OusHAK MEDALLION RuG Asia Minor, XVII Century 
Centrally, a huge pendented hexagonal medallion in bleu-de-ciel, 
woven with a scrolled cruciform ornament in jade-green, yellow 
and old-scarlet, in a mellow red field filled with formalized leaf mo- 
tives in a brilliant shade of blue. The spandrels scrolled and cusped, 
and of deep cypress-green. Fluctuating cerulean-blue border with 
large recurring rosettes and diamond-shaped floral motives, between 
scarlet guards with swastika devices and hooked figures. 

Length, to feet 7 inches; width, 6 feet 8 inches 


OusHAK CARPET Asia Minor, Early XVIII Century 


From the corners huge quarter-plaquettes of jade-green, enriched 
with branch motives, project into a field of scarlet overrun with 
straggling blue branches, in the centre of which is a gigantic pen- 
danted hexagonal medallion with vermiculate edges, enriched with 
quatrefoil leaf motives in blue, green, scarlet and primrose-yellow. 
Variable sky-blue border bearing large green and red blossom forms 
interspersed with leaf motives. 

Length, 13 feet 10 inches; width, 8 feet 3 inches 


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On a ground of fluctuating sapphire-blue, a pole of three flattened 
lozenge medallions with scrolled edges in old-scarlet, infloretted 
in fawn and blue; between them projecting from the sides huge 
demi-plaquettes of bleu-de-ciel woven with angular branch motives, 
the spaces between in the field filled with trailing formalized foliage. 
Narrow old-scarlet border with a running pinnacled figure in ivory 
having pendent blue palmettes. Sky-blue and fawn guards. 

Length, 13 feet 6 inches; width, 7 feet 3 inches 


OUSHAK CARPET Asia Minor, XVI Century 
On a beautiful mellow scarlet field an unusual allover design of 
angular serrated leafage and branches forming a species of lattice- 
work in golden-yellow picked out in sapphire-blue. The conventional 
border has on a deep cypress-green ground a chain of linked stepped 
medallions in scarlet outlined in pale blue with latch-hooks. Scarlet 
and bleu-de-ciel guards with leaf ornament. 

Length, 16 feet 6 inches; width, 8 feet 


KHORASSAN ANIMAL CARPET Late XVII Century 


The ground of deep blue-black is woven with an allover pattern of 
the rhomboidal Herati leaf design, embellished with roses and con- 
ventionalized lotus in tawny-red, sea-green, blue, tan and ivory. 
Superimposed on this in arbitrary fashion are nine symmetrically 
placed animals at each end of the rug—pairs of ring-doves, hares, 
leopards and song birds, and the yellow Lion of Persia at the foot. 
Narrow border of scarlet with an undulating branch motive in ivory 
winding among lotus blossoms and black rosettes. Six ribbon guards. 

Length, 15 feet 9 inches; width, 7 feet 6 inches 


OusHak MEDALLION Carrer Asia Minor, Late XVII Century 
The carpet is characterized by a central pendanted hexagonal 


‘medallion of great size in sapphire-blue outlined in green and de- 


veloping a large cruciform leaf motive in blue, red, green and 
golden-yellow. The rest of the field is diapered in blue with hooked 
motives, the corners being occupied by large laviolate quarter 
plaquettes in cypress-green overrun with angular branches. Fluctu- 
ating blue border with quincunxes of scarlet lotus blossoms having 


rectilinear branches. 
Length, 17 feet; width, 8 feet 6 inches 


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OusHAK MEDALLION CARPET Asia Minor, XVI Century 
In a well-preserved field of mellow scarlet filled with straggling blue 
foliage is a large pendanted oval medallion in sapphire-blue with 
cusped green edges, enriched with a cruciform leaf ornament in 
scarlet picked out in yellow, the whole embellished with a tracery 
of scarlet branches. At the corners are four leaf-shaped quarter- 
plaquettes in deep greenish-black, portions of which have been curi- 
ously finished in brown wool. 

The border is of sapphire-blue and exhibits recurring fringed 
leaf palmettes in colors of the field amid a welter of small for- 
malized blossoms. Two geometrical guards in blue and scarlet. 

Length, 13 feet 9 inches; width, 8 feet 4 inches 


Damascus GOTHIC CARPET XV Century 
In a mellow red ground a central eight-pointed stellate medallion 
enclosing an octagon outlined in sky-blue and with geometrical 
designs reserved in grounds of emerald-green and golden-yellow; 
the remainder of the field filled with characteristic geometrical fig- 
ures enriched with diaper ornament and wheel-shaped blossom de- 
vices. The border, in the four colors of the field, develops a chain 
of oval and elongated plaquettes alternately in grass-green and crim- 
son, infloretted with tiny scattered leaves. 

Length, 13 feet 6 inches; width, 9 feet 


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FEREGHAN FLORAL CARPET Early XVIII Century 
Pale golden-yellow field with unusual allover diamond lattice design 
having blue blossoms at the intersections and enclosing symmetrical 
upstanding sprays and vases of blossoms in soft reds, greens, tans, 
lilac and ivory. Seven borders of pistache-green, scarlet and deep 
blue, with serrated swaying vine motives having pendant blossoms. 

Length, 19 feet 6 inches; width, 8 feet 4 inches 


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KousBaA FLORAL CARPET Early XVIII Century 
Allover design, falling into three lines, of variously shaped fringed 
leaf palmettes linked by straight diagonal scarlet branches support- 
ing smaller blossoms and formalized leafage; woven in sky-blue, 
rose, yellow, emerald, purple, tans and ivory. Variable deep moss- 
green border with large crimson, rose and fawn leaf palmettes 
joined by angular straggling rose-crimson leafage. Rose guards 
with running leaf motives. 


Length, 22 feet 7 inches; width, 8 feet 


KouBaA CARPET Late XVII Century 
Beautiful deep sapphire-blue field woven with an allover pattern em- 
bodying five longitudinal rows of large infloretted palmettes—cir- 
cular, spade-shaped, cruciform and fringed—and joined by a dia- 
mond lattice of slender yellow branches bearing conventionalized 
leaves; the whole woven in a variety of mellow reds, tans, chocolate- 
brown, sky-blue, emerald, yellow and ivory. Dull scarlet border of 
later date, with running floral design. 

Length, 21 feet; width, 9 feet 


HERAT CARPET XVIII Century 


_ Deep blue-black field woven with allover design of rows of fringed 


lotus, peony and spatulate palmettes enriched with leafage and 
linked by short diagonal scarlet branches; in orange, tans, yellow, 
mazarine-blue, green and ivory. Tawny orange border with recur- 
ring dark-blue lotus palmettes alternating with cruciform leaves and 
white blossoms and joined by angular branches. Yellow guards 
with a swaying branch motive. 

Length, 31 feet 4 inches; width, 8 feet 9 inches 


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60. ANTIQUE KHORASSAN VASE CARPET 


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63. 


Beautiful rose-crimson field, woven with three pendants of large 
jewel-like plaquettes of various sizes, centred with a deep blue scal- 
loped diamond medallion overrun with floral ornament, which is 
repeated in the spandrels. Amid the brilliant colors of the plaquettes 
are six symmetrically placed vases of white jasmine. Two borders 
of red and pistache-green with turtle palmettes and “‘pear” devices 
respectively, are framed by numerous blue and scarlet guards. 
Length, 18 feet 4 inches; width, 13 feet 5% inches 


ANTIQUE KHORASSAN HERATI CARPET 
Delicate ivory field exhibiting the allover Herati lozenge design 
with particolored leaves in sky-blue and rose, centring rosettes sup- 
ported by delicate almond-green leafage. Border of almond-green 
similarly enriched with a smaller Herati pattern and enclosed be- 
tween the frames of numerous rose, blue and ivory floral guards. 


Heavy velvety pile. 
Length, 20 feet 4 inches; width, 16 feet 


KHORASSAN ANIMAL CARPET XVIII Century 
Deep blue field beautifully woven with an allover naturalistic floral 
design of slender interlacing branches of lotus, peonies, wild roses, 
cowslips and other blossoms in celadon, sky-blue, rose, yellow; inter- 
spersed with pairs of adossés and affrontés green and blue parrots 
and small animals. At either end, at the base, are red vases of 
blossoms flanked by pairs of yellow stags. Elaborate frame of seven 
borders, with counterchanged pinnacles, running branch motives and 
linked palmettes in colors of the field. Heavy soft pile. 

Length, 13 feet 4 inches; width, 10 feet 2 inches 


ANTIQUE KHOoRASSAN ANIMAL CARPET 

Deep sapphire-blue field with a scalloped floral diamond medallion 
in rose-crimson amid poles of pendant jeweled plaquettes of various 
shapes, and vases of blossoms, in sky-blue and shades of rose, yel- 
low and ivory; the spandrels of rose-crimson exhibiting blossoms and 
figures of lions pursuing hares. Surrounded by an elaborate frame 
of sixteen borders with swaying vines, recurring “pear” figures and 
linked turtle palmettes, in colors of the field. Heavy velvety pile. 


Size, 15 feet square 


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66. 


OusHAK MEDALLION CarPET Asia Minor, Late XVII Century 
The entire field is occupied by three enormous hexagonal medal- 
lions in sapphire-blue and cypress-green, outlined in green and sky- 
blue and enriched, the end ones with pendanted cruciform devices, 
the central one with allover floral ornament in scarlet, dark and 
light blue, green, tan, yellow and ivory. From the sides of the 
field project green pinnacles, the space between filled with scattered 
blue leafage. Fluctuating blue border with angular rosettes and 
lotus blossoms joined by saltirewise branches; scarlet and blue 
guards. 


Length, 21 feet; width, 10 feet 6 inches 


OusHAK MEDALLION CarPET Asia Minor, Early XVII Century 
Centrally a gigantic cusped oval medallion in deep green, bearing a 
large cruciform leaf ornament in mellow scarlet, the whole enriched 
with meandering angular leafage in red, green, blue and brown. 
The remainder of the field is occupied by blue straggling leafage, 
with the exception of the corners, from which project large demi- 
leaf plaquettes in cypress-green similarly enriched with a formalized 
design of leaves and branches. 

The border is broad and of deep green, and woven with a 
recurring cluster of green, crimson and blue blossom heads alter- 
nating with fringed tawny orange leaf devices. Guards of orange 
and sky-blue patterned with trailing floral ornament. 

Length, 18 feet 2 inches; width, 9 feet 10 inches 


OusHAK CARPET Asia Minor, XVI Century 
A piece in delightful preservation of color and texture. The char- 
acteristic design displays a large pendanted circular medallion in 
sapphire-blue enriched with a cruciform leaf motive in brilliant 
emerald, the whole overrun by fantastic rose-colored branches of 
leafage and flowers. The field of deep scarlet, with a similar deco- 
ration of straggling floral ornament in blue, has four large leaf- 
shaped demi-plaquettes at the corners also in dark blue, picked out 
in scarlet and yellow and projecting into the field to buttress the 
composition. 

Border of rich deep blue, arranged with small alternately di- 
rected palmettes on a background of slender angular branches and 
formalized blossoms. Scarlet floral guards. 

Length, 17 feet 9 inches; width, 10 feet 3 inches 


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KouBA CARPET Early XVII Century 
Rose-crimson double arched field of superb tone and patina, woven 
with an allover pattern of angular fringed palmettes and floral 
ornament infloretted and interlinked by bent diagonal branches in 
sky-blue and yellow, the whole centred with a group of three huge 
leaf plaquettes, two in sapphire-blue, the third in tawny orange, de- 
veloping angular stems of formalized leafage and blossoms and 
outlined in yellow and sky-blue respectively, with scrolled contours 
of Chinese influence. Exceptionally broad deep cypress-green bor-. 
der, in which the design of the field is repeated in changed colors; 
outer guard of rose-red and ivory, the inner of ivory with inter- 
lacing formalized swaying vine figure. 

Length, 30 feet; width, 9 feet 3 inches 


KouBaA VASE CARPET AVI Century 
On a field of soft mazarine-blue, the composition falls into long 
vertical lines formed by large palmettes and leaf motives of every 
possible form—square, circular, spatulate, lyre-shaped and others— 
infloretted and woven in varied tones of blue, old-red, celadon and 
emerald-green, maroon, tans, ivory and black. The palmettes are 
interlinked by creeper-like branches which support small blossoms 
and snail figures, and among which are placed symmetrically five 
amphora vases filled with violets and jasmine. 

An archaic narrow maroon border develops lotus flowers and 
tiny palmettes alternating with squarely-disposed clusters of violets, 
bluebells, jasmine and hyacinth in soft colors. The inner guard 
is pinnacled and counterchanged in brown and ivory.- Woven on a 
double warp. 


Length, 21 feet 8 inches; width, 7 feet 10 inches 


RARE PERSIAN ANIMAL CARPET Late XVI Century 
On a field of old-rose is an allover patterning of delicate spreading 
branches of small blossoms — roses, jasmine, hyacinths, and other 
flowers — on which are superimposed larger conventionalized lotus 
motives, symmetrically placed. Among the flowers are crouching 
stags, rams, and small buck, pursued by lions, tigers and leopards, 
each group of animals in exact symmetry about the longitudinal 
axis. Unusual border of grayish-buff with traces of a diaper orna- 
ment, enriched with a number of curious leaf-shaped green pla- 
quettes with scalloped edges, alternately in groups of three and one, 
and infloretted with jasmine, in rose, tan and ivory. Guards with 
pinnacled diaper pattern. 

Length, 20 feet 5 inches; width, 7 feet 9 inches 


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70. IsPAHAN CARPET Eastern Persia, XVI Century 


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The design, beautifully drawn on a field of soft crimson, falls lon- 
gitudinally into seven lines, and transversely in three main groups 
of motives, forming a lavish allover decoration of palmettes of 
every shape, lotus blossoms, cloud-bands, a variety of smaller flow- 
ers and curling particolored lancet leaves, the whole intermingled 
in a scrolling network of interlacing creepers. 

A fine border, of deep velouté emerald, exhibits spade-shaped 
leaves in tan and ivory outlined in rose, recurring between two 
varieties of alternately directed palmettes, one pointed, the other 
turtle-shaped, in sapphire and sky-blue, ivory and fawn, on a back- 
ground of entwined branches. The outer floral guard of rose-crim- 
son, the inner of deep emerald-green. 


Length, 21 feet 7 inches; width, 9 feet 9 inches 


Note: An interesting feature of this carpet is the occurrence, woven into 
the field and border, of small details—hooks and combs—characteristics of the 
weaver’s fancy; a practice which has descended through nomad weaving to 
the present day, but is rarely found in large carpets. 


MAGNIFICENT IsPAHAN CARPET Eastern Persia, XVI Century 
The composition is marked by the predominance of the long curling 
frond of the particolored Herati leaf. In the middle is a huge 
lotus-shaped palmette centred with a ring formed of two curling 
leaves clasped by a jasmine blossom, supported on a serpentined 
and jeweled cloud-band in sapphire-blue and emitting a pair of 
huge scrolling leaves and nodding lotus palmettes. Above it is 
placed an elaborate ornament formed of intertwined curved Herati 
leaves and suspended from a scrolled cloud-band in tan. The rest - 
of the field is occupied by pairs of large fimbriated leaf palmettes 
symmetrically disposed, with elaborate infloretting and joined by 
curving sea-green branches bearing smaller blossoms. 

The broad border of deep moss-green, with a velouté patina, 
exhibits recurring lotus palmettes in brilliant colors, alternately 
directed and enclosed between large curving lancet leaves, in rose- 
crimson, sky-blue, fawn, jade-green, tan and ivory. Floral outer 
and inner guards of rose-crimson and sky-blue respectively. 


Length, 21 feet 8 inches; width, 14 feet 2 inches 


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72. 


IsPAHAN RUG Eastern Persia, XVI Century 
An exquisite rose-crimson ground is centred with two pairs of op- 
posed palmettes in ivory and emerald-green, supported by golden- 
yellow and sea-green cloud-bands and secondary symmetrically 
placed palmettes in green, tan, sapphire-blue and crimson. The 
whole field is pervaded by interlacing scrolled ivory and green 
creepers diversified with lotus blossoms and peonies, tiny violets, 
orchids, buttercups and daisies in naturalistic colors. 

A mellow deep green border develops alternately directed and 
fringed leaf palmettes alternating with smaller lotus blossoms and 
interlinked by undulating crimson and green branches. Rose-crimson 
and pistache-green guards. 

Length, 6 feet 4 inches; width, 4 feet 7 inches 


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73. SOUTH PERSIAN MILLEFLEURS RUG XVII Century 


A cusped arch supported by two rose-colored cypresses encloses a 
field of deep crimson, with a baluster vase at the centre of the 
base from which emerges a mass of tiny fragrant branches of jewel- 
like blossoms covering the whole field and drawn in flat perspective, 
so that their calices are fully seen— roses, carnations, jasmine, 
peonies, lotus, in a blaze of brilliant gems. The base and span- 
drels are of cowslip-yellow, similarly adorned with a profusion of 
tiny blossoms; the border of sapphire-blue with upstanding stems 
of carnations and jasmine alternating with tiny lotus palmettes. 
Ivory guards with a beautiful running design of naturalistic minia- 
ture flowers. 

Length, 6 feet 4 inches; width, 4 feet 


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74. IsPAHAN RuG Eastern Persia, XVI Century 
The design is centred with four spatulate palmettes infloretted with 
lotus blossoms and surrounded by six larger spade-shaped leaves 
directed inwards, in a deep wine-red field. About the main elements 
are symmetrically disposed subordinate palmettes, lotus blossoms 
and a multitude of minor flowers and delicate leafage sustained on 
a tangle of green and ivory branches. A rich border of deep cypress- 
green exhibits fimbriated spatulate palmettes alternately directed 
and divided by rose-crimson lotus blossoms, on a foundation of 
interlacing green and rose-crimson creepers. Floral guards of wine- 
crimson and sky-blue. 

Length, 7 feet; width, 4 feet 9 inches 


[See Illustration Opposite ] 


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75. PERSIAN VASE CARPET Circa 1600 
Fluctuating deep crimson field, woven with longitudinal rows of 
large plaquettes and palmette devices of various shapes — square, 
circular, lyre-shaped, spatulate and lozenge-shaped, elaborately 
infloretted with lotus, peonies, chrysanthemums, hyacinths and other 
flowers or enriched with checkered diaper motives. ‘These are 
superimposed on a delicate latticework of slender interlacing twigs 
bearing leafage and jasmine, violets, carnations and other small 
flowers in naturalistic colors. Deep sapphire-blue border with lotus 
and chrysanthemum rosettes and small plaquette devices alternating 
with squarely disposed heads of hyacinths, bluebells, jasmine and 


forget-me-nots. 
Length, 13 feet 7 inches; width, 11 feet 9 inches 


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ROYAL PERSIAN 
ANIMAL RUG 


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76. RoyAL PERSIAN ANIMAL RuG XV or Early XVI Century 


This rug has been described by John K. Mumford as being “‘as near 
perfection as the woolen carpet of the East has come or will ever 
come.” It was a gift from the Emperor of the Persians, presumably 
to the Emperor of Turkey, for an authenticated record in the pos- 
session of its former owner sets forth that the rug was among the 
effects of the Sultan Abdul Aziz of Turkey at the time of his death. 
In design it is close to the historical rug which is illustrated as plate 
XI in the book of the Vienna Museum and is in the collection of 
the Prince Alexis Lobanow-Rostowsky. 

On a dark green, almost black ground, is a close confusion of 
moss-green creepers, each detail of which is arranged in orderly 
symmetry; the parent stems being of orange outlined with red, 
curving and putting forth green leaves, tendrils and flower shapes. 
In the centre is a cusped pendanted oval medallion in Ispahan rose- 
crimson and elaborately ornamented in delicate pink with inter- 
woven vine traceries, surmounted by a superb arabesque branch de- 
sign in silver thread; this is centred with four skilfully drawn birds 
of the hawk tribe. 

Outside the medallion are disposed amid the green vines deer, 
gazelles, sheep and goats pursued by wild animals —lions and 
leopards — in vigorous attitudes. 

The border is of a rich golden-yellow, woven in deeper tones 
with delicate interlacing branches, and supporting a chain whose 
alternate links are composed of rose-crimson rosettes and cusped 
oblong plaquettes, the latter woven in silver with caligraphic coup- 
lets of Persian poetry.* The floral guards are of crimson. 

Length, 11 feet 10 inches; width, 6 feet 
From the Henry G. Marquand Collection. 
*The inscriptions have been translated by Dr. Richard J. H. Gottheil 
as follows: 


“O Saki, the zephyr of the spring is blowing now; 
The rose has become fresh and luxuriant. 


“The drops of the dew are like pearls in the cup of the tulip, 
And the tulip unfolds its glorious flag. 


“Narcissus keeps its eye on the stars, 
Like the nightwatch throughout the night. 


“To sit alone in the desert is not 
Isolation, with the company of wine. 


“When Saki passes the beautiful cup around, 
The rosy cheeks of the beauties become 


“Violet for the love of the rose, 
And look like the purple robe of a horseman.” 


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77. ROYAL POLONAISE GOLD- AND SILVER-WOVEN SILK CARPET 

Circa 1600 
Fond d’or et d’argent, of solid metal threads, centred with a cusped 
oval medallion in a delicate grass-green, enriched with a rhom- 
boidal pattern of curving lancet leaves and four orange and sky- 
blue lotus blossoms; the remainder of the field symmetrically woven 
in silks of mellow color and patina with a brilliant mass of scrolled 
and interlacing brown branches, rich with Herati leafage in varied 
shades of greens and yellows and lotus, peonies, carnations, violets, 
primroses, and jasmine, interspersed with amorphous clouds and 
bats, of Mongolian origin. At the corners are reserved leaf-green 
spandrels. 

The border shows a masterly counterchanged design in leaf- 
green and ruddy orange of spade-shaped fimbriated palmettes 
flanked by curving Herati leaves and supported beneath a cusped 
scrolled framework of branches in gold and silver. Golden-yellow 
floral inner guard, outer guard with pinnacle ornament. A unique 
rug. 

Length, 13 feet 9 inches; width, 6 feet 


[See Illustration Opposite ] 


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78. RoyaL IsPAHAN CARPET Eastern Persia, XVI Century 
The field of this magnificent carpet is of a superb rose-crimson color, 
with velouté texture and soft patina. The Ispahan composition 
of particolored Herati leaves, lotus and peony palmettes and Mon- 
golian cloud-bands is evenly and symmetrically distributed against a 
background of intertwining and scrolling green branches beautified 
with small blossoms and delicate leafage. Of the colors may be 
distinguished a leaf-green, mazarine-blue and a magnificent bleu- 
de-ciel, lime-yellow, rose, tawny tans and ivory. 

The border is distinguished by the perfect preservation of the 
deep moss-green ground, in which is woven a beautiful composition 
of alternately directed lotus palmettes in the colors of the field 
encircled by brilliant particolored and fringed Herati leaves. This 
is framed between rose-crimson and royal blue guards. 

Length, 16 feet 3 inches; width, 7 feet 2 inches 


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79. RoYAL GOLD AND SILVER-WOVEN SILK POLONAISE CARPET 
Circa 1600 
This is one of the rarest of the ‘Polonaise’ designs, showing a 
marked dissociation from the influence of the Ispahan carpets in 
the absence of the cloud-band and the unusual rectilinear composition 
of the field, which is more characteristic of Northwestern Persia. 
The design falls into numerous lateral rows of angular cusped 
plaquettes, reserved alternately in gold and silver, closely linked and 
extending across the width of the rug. The field between each two 
rows varies; beginning at the top, a beautiful series of fluctuating 
orange, leaf-green, tawny orange, lime-yellow, brown and salmon- 
pink tones to the centre, the play of light subtly changing the 
values of the colors in the other half of the carpet. On this is 
superimposed an allover design of large and small lotus blossoms 
and cinquefoils with curving fringed Herati leaves, symmetrically 
linked by graceful scrolling branches interlacing with the plaquettes, 
whose intersections are enriched with coiled creeper ornaments. The 
border has a winding tawny-pink branch bearing leaf palmettes in 
tones of the field, between pairs of curved lancet leaves, dividing 
it into grounds of gold and silver. 


Length, 13 feet 2 inches; width, § feet 8 inches 


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80. RoyALt IsPAHAN CARPET Eastern Persia, Late XVI Century 
Mellow rose-crimson field, in which the formal Ispahan design 
is broken up into what is virtually an allover pattern. The central 
plaquettes and lotus flowers are reduced in size and distributed, so 
that the effect is of rows of beautifully diversified emblems — large 
spade-shaped plaquettes, fimbriated leaves, lotus blossoms, cinque- 
foils and Mongolian cloud-bands, linked by scrolling creepers 
wrought together in rhomboidal frameworks. 

The border, also in superb preservation, is of a deep metallic 
moss-green, with velvety patina. In this recur large spatulate leaves 
of fawn color repeating amid saltires of scrolling branches orna- 
mented with lotus and smaller “‘turtle’’ palmettes. Delicate floral 
guards, the outer of rose-crimson, the inner of sky-blue. 


Length, 22 feet 8 inches; width, 9 feet 6 inches 


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